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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-22 12:57:17.
(Language: English)
 
Awesome, awesome novel of WWI. Once I actually have time, I will definitely continue the trilogy. Great, realistic historical fiction.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-11 01:40:58.
(Language: English)
I read this while in Montagny, France for a few days rest. I barely stirred until I'd finished it. A compelling portrayal of doomed youth and an insightful and restrained exploration of the relationships that exist between men when placed in extreme and extraordinary circumstances. Highly recommended.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-18 05:35:28.
(Language: English)
This is a truly great book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-02 10:20:00.
(Language: English)
One of my very favorite books, it's the first in a superb trilogy, set in WWI, and based on the true story of Siegfried Sassoon, the English poet, who was placed in a mental institution by the intervention of his friend, the poet Robert Graves, who wanted to spare him a court-martial. Sassoon had taken the risk of a high-profile stance against the War (after serving with valor). He was placed under the care of a psychiatrist, William Rivers, whose job it was to patch up the shell-shocked and send them out to the front, despite his own growing moral qualms. Read this trilogy together with Robert Graves' memoir, "Goodbye to All That" and the poems of Wilfred Owens...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 02:59:24.
(Language: English)
Tras leer esta novela y sus compañeras me zambullí en la Primera Guerra Mundial en serio.
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Kjell posted a review at 2008-07-08 05:44:00.
(Language: English)
Känslan i denna bok är talande till den grad av tiden den anspelar på:1917-18 första världskrigets fasanfulla,mänskliga tragedier. Tankarna förs ändå lite till "gökboet" med sin institutionella läggning,då Pat barker här tar sig för inom psykvården vid ett krigsneurosecenter i regi av Craighlochard. Ini mellan varven är boken absolut godkänd,men har ändå perioder då den känns lite tung i handen,kanske en aningen sömnig...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-09 06:18:50.
(Language: English)
Am reading the trilogy backwards, in a way, since I started with The Ghost Road. But it is nice to see how an author is consistent in her writing, yet to see how she has developed her style.The prose is lyrical and tight where the atmosphere calls for it, and the interspersing with Owens' and Sassoon's poems say so much more than an author could.It is in this volume that we first meet Billy Prior, and watch the relationship open and grow..A wonderful read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-14 07:15:30.
(Language: English)
Pat Barker is now one of my favorite authors. This book is part of a trilogy (Eye in the Door, Ghost Trail) about England during the first World War. Regereration is about a psychiatrist in charge of 'fixing' the boys coming home with shell-shock and making them well enough to return to the trenches. Gripping.. especially to anyone in medicine today.
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ilana posted a review at 2008-10-16 03:56:11.
(Language: English)
depressing yet insightful
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-29 12:05:59.
(Language: English)
Very different type of story. A very cool angle on war. It is a story about war, yet not one shot is fired during the entire tale. Barker does a great job at developing her characters. Each are very distinctive. I want to read the next two at some point. This is a really good book. I didn't think I would like it at first because of how much it jumped around, but in the end I really liked it. You just have to warm up to it first. All of the characters are unique and each give the story something the others can't offer.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-05 12:16:09.
(Language: English)
Provides a good insight into WW1 both at the frontline and back at home achieved through the cunning use of a War Hospital for the shell-shocked. Some likeable characters who explore the interesting psychological conflicts that only intense trench warfare could bring about.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-05 03:15:13.
(Language: English)
the trilogy is the best telling of how WW1 affects troops and individuals alike.sad and poignant. It is the beginning of psychiatry and the understanding of shell shock or post traumatic shock syndrome. There are three books in this series, shows the human side( psychological) to WW1, the emergence of the understanding of post traumatic stress syndrome..there were no cowards just very damaged soldiers. what is a soldier- what is a man? One must read all three to fully appreciate the times. A trilogy of the WW1 and the subsequent condition of "shell shock" ;the beginning of the understanding of the devastating psychological effects of war..personal poetic, poignant
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-28 07:15:15.
(Language: English)
I read Pat Barker's trilogy back to back to back - the collection I had was in a single volume. The three read very much like one long novel - the flow between the books is fairly seamless. I feel compelled to review the series simply as one story, in part because it very much is, and also because it would be impossible for me to accurately differentiate between the novels at this point. Suffice it to say that it is worth reading "Regeneration," and it then behooves the reader to finish what he has started. This is a bit of a double-edged sword, however. By the end of the third book, I was definitely eager to get the story over with - not exactly the response to her work that Barker intended, I'm sure. The novel is set during the First World War, on the Home Front, England; a great deal of the action takes place at Craiglockhart War Hospital, a place of recovery for the shell-shocked survivors of the trenches on the Continent. The novels deals with several historical figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, poet and decorated veteran, and Dr. William Rivers, a psychiatrist at Craiglockhart. Barker puts her own interpretation on the lives of these figures, and manages to weave a convincing and important tale. It's a "war" novel unlike many others; although the men have flashbacks, the bulk of the story takes place far from the muck and mire of the front lines of ravaged France. There are some powerful themes throughout, not the least of which is Rivers' increasing reluctance to "cure" the men in his care only to send them back to the trenches. But the narrative does drag at times. I think it would have been better to read these novels with a break, either temporal and/or by means of another book, between them. Recommended with reservations, I suppose. Try "Regeneration" if you're looking for something a bit different.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-07-24 01:06:59.
(Language: English)
Excellent book. Shows the horror of trench warfare and the system of getting men back into those trenches and the toll it takes on everyone involved.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-02-28 01:00:52.
(Language: English)
Wonderful novel about a recuperation hospital during the first war. Sassoon is the main patient, he meets Wilfred Owen here. Amazing - you get the poetry as well.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-19 06:40:00.
(Language: English)
I love her writing
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-25 10:08:41.
(Language: English)
A great book about WWI and lots of other stuff.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-28 07:28:08.
(Language: English)
No ordinary war book this, and not only because the narrative is entirely based within a Scottish hospital for mentally scarred officers. The blending of fact and fiction is seamless, making for an unforgettable and thought provoking literary experience; powerful images of the horrors of the WW1 carnage from a unique perspective and with an intensely personal, accessible feel. I couldn't wait to move on to the second volume of trilogy.
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Susanne posted a review at 2010-02-07 01:00:16.
(Language: English)
Moving story, brilliantly told.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-31 12:22:24.
(Language: English)
An antimilitaristic book that doesn't TELL you what to think, but gives you the choice of being pro or against. Love it to bits
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-14 04:13:42.
(Language: English)
I was crazy about this author for a while, a woman writing about traditionally more masculine storylines, wartime etc.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-04 06:20:31.
(Language: English)
This is a brilliant consideration of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon. Savor it for the fine conversations about the craft of writing war poetry.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-24 12:23:13.
(Language: English)
Er... I think I've missed the point with this one. Just didn't love it. Bit bored; lost track of who was who... sorry fans, I expect it's just me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-14 11:17:48.
(Language: English)
I felt this book opened a whole new aspect to WW1, i had never thought of the people, doctors, who had to deal with the direct effects of the war, and it was even more intersting that it focused on the mental effects. Lovely to read with many characters to enjoy and delve into the story was nicely distributed so it was not sominated completely by one character.
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